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BIRTH MATTERSA Midwife's Manifestaby INA MAY GASKIN foreword by Ani DifrancoTo see other books on Pregnancy and Parenting at The Bookshelf of Oz click here New softcover book, 250 pages, published 2011. In Birth Matters, America's leading midwife Ina May Gaskin reminds us that the ways in which women experience birth have implications for us all. Renewing confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth provides transformative possibilities for individual families, and for society at large. Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Ina May is one of the Founders and a past president (1996 to 2002) of the Midwives' Alliance of North America. She is a powerful advocate for a woman's right to give birth without excessive and unnecessary medical intervention. Her clinical midwifery skills have been developed entirely through independent study and apprenticeship with other midwives around the world. Ina May and fellow Farm midwives were instrumental in the development of the rigorous Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) certification process. Ina May travels internationally on speaking engagements and networking with other midwives and midwife alliances. She has lectured and continues to lecture at midwifery conferences and medical schools all over the world. She is also the author of Ina May's Guide to Childbirth and Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding, and wrote the foreword to Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering by Australian author Sarah J. Buckley. Birth Matters is Ina May's latest book See other books by Ina May Gaskin click here Birth Matters: A midwife's manifesta by Ina May Gaskin
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